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03-26-09, 12:10 AM | #6826 |
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03-26-09, 05:14 AM | #6827 |
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03-26-09, 10:57 AM | #6828 |
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End Of The Line
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03-27-09, 05:27 AM | #6829 |
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03-28-09, 06:10 AM | #6830 |
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Death of a ship
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03-28-09, 07:02 AM | #6831 |
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03-28-09, 09:30 AM | #6832 |
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Did you know Jim,that the Stuka's may have been the intended plane,but it actually wouldn't have worked,They're undercarriage was to flimsy according to Captain Eric 'winkle' Brown CBE,DSC,AFC,RN, who evaluated Nazi aircraft after the war,they wouldn't have stood up to repeated carrier landingsLike alot of Nazi ideas,nice idea,crap in practice
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03-28-09, 09:53 AM | #6833 |
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If design limitations didn't ground em the RAF would have sharp enough
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03-28-09, 01:38 PM | #6834 |
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Sorry to be O/T,but may I interest you in a book Jim? "Wings On My Sleeve" by Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown,in the guiness book of records for flying more types of aircraft than any person ever(487),also for making more carrier deck landings than anyone ever,Arrested by the gestapo on the eve of war and released on the border without them realising he was an RAF reserveHe went on to do patrol's with the fleet air arm with the Malta convoys and did battle with the dreaded Condors,shooting down a few,loads more in the book.Its wonderful and I highly recomend it
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03-28-09, 04:16 PM | #6835 |
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But a Spitfires landing gear won't stand up to deck landings, Yet the modified Seafire was a highly adept carrier fighter that went on to claim victories in the Korean conflict Stiffer landing gear, a beefed up chassis to stay together during hook landings, a bigger engine and the sea-stuka would have been a fine carrier aircraft
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03-28-09, 05:50 PM | #6836 |
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Fat Herrman made sure Stuka's and any other sort of aircraft stayed well away from the Kreigsmarine.
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03-29-09, 04:53 AM | #6837 |
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for everything,Quite bizarre really.Brown flew everything that the Nazis had built after the war,his favourite was the Komet rocket plane,the sheer speed took his breath away and once airborne was a fine plane to fly
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03-29-09, 08:53 AM | #6840 |
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